Category:Session 1

THE BEGINNING!
Our characters: Sebastien Fulcri (rogue), Lywellen Grenfell (bard), Klog (cleric), Gimble Waggletop (warlock), Orson Sudryl (fighter)

The threads of fate:

Sebastien once tried to pickpocket Lywellen, interested in a fancy looking book they had on their person. Lywellen caught him in the act but found something endearing about the boy. Has been attempting to teach the finer points of abyssal poetry ever since.

Orson and Gimble have traveled together, if only by happenstance as Gimble’s sense of direction is less than stellar and Orson, respecting the wisdom of age and authority of experience, sees in Gimble a trustworthy companion.

Klog needs a crew and brings the team together, with the promise of riches, fame and glory awaiting at sea.

SESSION 1 (4/25/19):
Klog the sailor man is responsible for all our problems.Scored us a contract on a ship named the Minnow out on the Sulfurous Sea. Thar be treasure (also a lost empire, Odessia). The isles are hostile and full of various natural dangers and other sea-faring shenanigans. The night captain is a drow named Sylas, a little crotchety. First mate is a dwarven man named Flint. The Captain is a bad ass looking tiefling lady and her name is Lyan? Leyan? (TRAVIS I DONT UNDERSTAND THE NAME THROUGH THE ACCENT HELP DM NOTE - Captain Layan Savant). Klog met her through the dock master of wherever we came from.

We’re looking for artifacts in a chamber in the cliffs as well as a key in the possession of another party of explorers who went missing. We have two nights to find what we need or they leave without us. SPOOKY ISLAND. She gives us the map and we’re getting kicked off the ship to get started. We’re set off by two ‘twins’ who are both mute, and clearly not twins. They go only by ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’, for their colored shirts. The “port” is just a ruin of stone buildings, barely a skeleton of a structure. Volcanic mess pretty much everywhere. Reedy vegetation overtook what probably was a village.

WE KILLED A PIG. BUT WE ORPHANED A PIGLET!!! (Brett is deeply concerned)

The natives (Umboki (it’s on the map damnit))) found us, damn mosquitoes. We made friends (Lywellen did all the work...what a charmer) but they don’t want us messing with their hunter god ancestor guy. His name is Itsataki? (Ixa’Taka, points if you get the reference w/o google) It's a taco. His name is taco. (Brett heard Ixitaca but - willing to go with It’s A Taco.) Don’t disturb the taco’s resting place is basically the warning they give, or death will find us. He has taco guardians apparently. We climb into the caves and find a structure and the taco burial site. He had pet doggos. They were good bois. Don’t touch the treasure, Seb. Don’t do it. Don’t. Nope.

There’s a wooden door in the room, which is ominous but we open it anyway. A STAIRWELL! A DEAD DWARF! 15 silver + 20 copper on the dead dwarf.

Walking up the stairs and into a cloud of darkness, still can’t see shit. Bringing a lantern into the cloud IGNITES the air and burns Orson+Seb! The fire reforms within a statue of a dwarf, igniting to bring it to life, and a fight breaks out. The dwarven statue, animated by the fire, deals a fair bit of melee damage itself, and any melee damage dealt to it burns the attacker! The fight nearly fells Orson (2HP) before Seb get the HDYWTDT (inspired by Lywellen's abyssal chant) and puts an arrow right through a crack in the bronze plating and fells the dwarven statue. 10 silver, a lock pick set, a double headed key, silver ornate dagger, a nice looking shortsword.

The party finds a door with a dwarven face carved in stone, and Orson translates the text which reads: “Beware all who would enter: The first guardian is not the last.”

The party examines the door and notices it is protected by some sort of magical barrier. They can push against it, but they can’t quite touch it. After a fruitless investigation, the party decides to leave the chamber and head back to the ship (the Minnow).

On the way out Seb and Gimble conspire telepathically (MAGIC!) to try and distract and open Its A Taco’s box. Lywellen, with her watchful eye catches Seb in the act and stops him from doing anything stupid, while Orson gives him a swift backhand and a scolding. Gimble, of course, plays along as if he hadn’t a thing to do with it.

FINISH w/ SESSION 1.

Total Loot: 25 Silver, 20 Copper

Individual Loot after distribution: 5 Silver Each, 4 Copper Each

Total Items (Holder): Lock Pick Set (Orson), Double Headed Key (Orson), Silver Ornate Dagger (Orson), a Short Sword (Seb)